On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:47:45PM -0500, Igor Khavkine wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:00:06PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > > Maybe we can make translators register with /etc/mtab, like processes > > > register with proc. ext2fs would register with /etc/mtab, so would > > > ufs, but not necessarily ftpfs or tarfs (whenever that's done). > > > > You want filesystems which have not yet been started (but are mounted in > > the Unix sense) to be listed. For example, you boot and you have > > your root file system mounted on /. Mounted, right? Then you have > > /home/me/extra-space be a passive translator. It will not be started to > > be translated until after it has been first accessed (e.g. once you log in > > and do an ls), however, for all intents and purposes, it is mounted but > > it will never have had the chance to register with the mtab translator. > > Would you really want that?
I wouldn't want passive translators with a backing store show up in /etc/mtab, so I think volunatry and dynamic registration by the servers would be the way to go (note that enforcing such a policy is not useful, we already enfore registration with proc for user level filesystems). > Another option that seems more like what you're proposing is keeping > a persistent registry of all used filesystems. Come to think of it, > it would be very much like /etc/fstab. But fstab is already used for > mounting partitions at boot time, Not on the Hurd. We use it for fsck only. > so what if you want some of the > fs translators to stay passive until you use them? Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
